Arguments against the lifetime appointment to the federal bench include all except the following:

a. The founders could not have foreseen the effect of lifetime appointments.
b. The Court is not accountable to the American people.
c. Giving them lifetime appointments does not remove them from the political process.
d. The longer justices serve together the better they get at making decisions.
e. Partisan fights have led to more ideological appointees.


d

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